A great response by Joshua Porter to Don Norman’s recent attack on Google’s design (Derek Powazek has apparently also been having a go at Google’s design… I haven’t gotten to that yet)

an *amazing* way to see a whole lot of images. Check it out.

“If you can’t explain the design, it must not be right yet.” – some thoughts on *how* to articulate and communicate design in the concept stage to your client.

I wish I was going to Webstock. Look at their amazing speaker list! I hope someone will be doing lots of liveblogging while it’s on (please!). eh. The downside to freelancing. No company training budget to send you off to conferences. *sigh*

Richard MacManus reports that one of Yahoo’s ‘Big Bets for the next 5 years’ is Next Generation Experience/User experience. We’ve definitely seen them taking laying the ground work for this. (other Big Bets include Monetization, Platforms, and Beyond the Browser).

did you know Adaptive Path now had a blog? Here’s a post from it. Here Brandon Schauer lists five perceived attributes that inform people’s decisions about adopting new technologies (via Everett M Rogers’ book Diffusion of Innovations): relative advantage, compatability, complexity, trialability and observability

here’s Derek Powazek’s critique of Google design. He starts off criticising the visual design, but it’s really more an interaction design critique in the end. The overall moral being ‘don’t just copy Google’. For me, I think attacking the search homepage is a little easy, given how much of Google there is to critique now – not the least of which, how it all might come together.

GOMS is a modeling technique (more specifically, a family of modeling techniques) that analyzes the user complexity of interactive systems.

Session notes from Ajax Experience Day 3: Bill Scott on Ajax Design (Patterns and Principles) via Ajaxian

[not] .. everything should be easy and natural. But the challenges should never be in the use of a thing. …The challenges are what makes the activity engaging and,…worth it. But the tools you use to meet those challenges should get out of your way!